Skunk Quotations

It may be that which we call a rose by any other name would smell as sweet,' but I should be loath to see a rose on a maiden's breast substituted by a flower, however beautiful and fragrant it might be, that is went by the name of the skunk lily.

Back in the 1950s, there was a top-secret program code-named SUNTAN being conducted at a top-secret facility called Skunk Works. Its objective? To develop a liquid-hydrogen-powered spy plane. Because liquid hydrogen is incredibly volatile, early experiments were conducted inside a bomb shelter with eight-foot-thick walls.

Like a dead skunk in the middle of the road, it stinks to high heaven,

I thought he hit a skunk and was trying to wash off his car. That's when I saw something crawl out from the back of the car.

Wilderness trails constitute a rare space in America marked by economic diversity. Lawyers and construction workers get bitten by the same mosquitoes and sip from the same streams; there are none of the usual signals about socioeconomic status, for most hikers are in shorts and a T-shirt and enveloped by an aroma that would make a skunk queasy.

At that point, looking remarkable healthy, the skunk gave me the finger (I swear!) and casually strolled back into the woods.

Does anybody else find it absolutely hilarious that a football coach is complaining about being lied to during the recruiting process? That's like the pig telling the skunk he has body odor.

Samantha the Skunk is a story about not smoking. The kids drew pictures after they hear the program.

Once you throw a skunk in the jury box it's hard to remove.

You don't get into a pissing contest with a skunk and I got in with a few skunks and I didn't win.

I love the smell of skunks. Driving down a back road and you smell a skunk that's sprayed or been hit. I love that. It reminds me of home.

In many organizations, the e-commerce operation may have started as a skunk works that didn't generate substantial business compared to stores or catalogs. Now e-commerce is a bigger part of the business and people are beginning to realize the value and how the web can work to drive sales across the brand.

I played 'Dead Skunk in the Middle of the Road' by Loudon Wainwright III. We played 'Girls Just Wanna Have Fun' by Cyndi Lauper; 'I Like Big Butts' by Sir Mix-a-Lot. I think people are just trying to torture us.

I'd rather have a skunk than a groundhog.